[OpenID] The delegation story in OpenID 2.0
Johnny Bufu
johnny at sxip.com
Thu Jan 18 23:40:30 UTC 2007
On 18-Jan-07, at 3:18 PM, Dmitry Shechtman wrote:
>> [...] HTML allows multiple link relationships to be specified for a
>> single link, so if an OP provides both OpenID Authentication 1.1
>> and OpenID Authentication 2.0, "openid2.provider" and
>> "openid.server" may appear in the same "rel" attribute.
>
> I was so naïve to have thought OpenID 2.0 was backward-compatible.
>
> If it's not broken, don't fix it!
OpenID2 is intended to be backwards-compatible with 1.1.
However, if a RP wishes to use some extra functionality that was
added in 2.0, it would be useful for it to determine the capability
of it's peer during discovery. This is the reason for the different
tags for v1/v2 HTML discovery.
Johnny
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